Comments on: UCLA’s 17th Celebration of Iranian Cinema http://www.parsarts.com/2007/05/05/uclas-17th-celebration-of-iranian-cinema/ Pars Arts: Iranian Diaspora Life / Culture / Identity Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:48:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: The Other http://www.parsarts.com/2007/05/05/uclas-17th-celebration-of-iranian-cinema/comment-page-1/#comment-61 The Other Sat, 05 May 2007 18:55:41 +0000 http://www.parsarts.com/2007/05/05/uclas-17th-celebration-of-iranian-cinema/#comment-61 I also suggest BEST IN THE WEST. It was shown at UCLA but it also has another screening tonight at Laemmle's Sunset 5. Here is the info: VC FILMFEST 2007 SATURDAY, MAY 05 - 04:30 PM | Laemmle's Sunset 5 http://www.vconline.org/festival/program.cfm?program_id=16 BEST IN THE WEST Throughout the 1960's and 70's thousands of young men and women left Iran to seek education and opportunity abroad. A group of particularly adventurous and charismatic friends met up in San Francisco. BEST IN THE WEST locates their experiences, as young men establishing their lives in a new country, within the context of the Vietnam War, changes in Iran, and the social, political, and musical atmosphere of San Francisco in the 60's and 70's. The parallel history of the Iranian oil industry and its relationship to American oil companies and the growth in American consumption provides a surprising and ironic counterpoint. Originally shot on 16mm and miniDV, the film also incorporates archival images of a pre-revolutionary Iran and an oil-hungry America and a lively soundtrack of Iranian music and American R&B, funk, and soul. I also suggest BEST IN THE WEST. It was shown at UCLA but it also has another screening tonight at Laemmle’s Sunset 5. Here is the info:

VC FILMFEST 2007
SATURDAY, MAY 05 – 04:30 PM | Laemmle’s Sunset 5
http://www.vconline.org/festival/program.cfm?program_id=16

BEST IN THE WEST
Throughout the 1960′s and 70′s thousands of young men and women left Iran to seek education and opportunity abroad. A group of particularly adventurous and charismatic friends met up in San Francisco. BEST IN THE WEST locates their experiences, as young men establishing their lives in a new country, within the context of the Vietnam War, changes in Iran, and the social, political, and musical atmosphere of San Francisco in the 60′s and 70′s. The parallel history of the Iranian oil industry and its relationship to American oil companies and the growth in American consumption provides a surprising and ironic counterpoint. Originally shot on 16mm and miniDV, the film also incorporates archival images of a pre-revolutionary Iran and an oil-hungry America and a lively soundtrack of Iranian music and American R&B, funk, and soul.

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